fsmithred wrote:I have this debate with myself every time I make a debian-live build. I usually end up with abiword and gnumeric, but I prefer to have the full office suite (OOo/Libre). Part of that is so I can open the pps files that people send me. There's an alternative for that, but it requires wine.
There's a possibility that we'll end up with two builds - lean and bloat. I've been trying out some of the native xfce apps that I don't generally use, like ristretto for an image viewer and squeeze for an archiver, and so far, I still like gthumb and xarchiver better. I was experimenting with xfburn, and it seemed ok, but my dvd drive refuses to create any media with a proper md5sum, so I've given up on it. I'm also about out of media and see no point in buying more, since it's more expensive than hard drives.
XFburn is junk IMHO. The standard Debian install includes Brasero as well, and I don't think you end up with a ton of gnome dependencies when it is installed. I know some people like k3burn or whatever the KDE program is, but Brasero has always worked for me so I just keep using it.
As for Squeeze and Ristretto....I don't mind them...they do what I want and that is what is most important for me. First thing I do on XFCE is remove the goodies meta package and clear out some of the junk that I don't plan on using, BUT, that is just me...to some people what I am removing might be something they cannot live without on XFCE.